{"id":150768,"date":"2025-10-19T10:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=150768"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:40:18","slug":"taiwan-turns-pink-blackpink-deliver-record-breaking-shows-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/taiwan-turns-pink-blackpink-deliver-record-breaking-shows-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan turns pink: BLACKPINK deliver record-breaking shows in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kaohsiung, Taiwan<\/strong>, just had the glow-up of the year! The country welcomed<strong> BLACKPINK\u2019s \u201cDEADLINE\u201d world tour<\/strong> on October 18 and 19, 2025, turning the southern port city into a glowing pink paradise.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the K-pop quartet&#8217;s tour visit, Kaohsiung launched the \u201c<strong>LIGHT UP Kaohsiung IN PINK<\/strong>\u201d campaign, illuminating six major landmarks, such as the Love River, Great Harbor Bridge, Kaohsiung Port Cruise Terminal, and Formosa Boulevard Station in pink every night from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. through October 19. This shiny gesture honored BLACKPINK\u2019s two sold-out shows at Kaohsiung National Stadium, where over 100,000 fans gathered to have a taste of their \u201cPink Venom.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheePopCore\/status\/1979941358992544122\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BLACKPINK\u2019s two SOLD-OUT shows at Kaohsiung National Stadium in Taiwan drew over 100,000+ attendees, setting new records.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014They made history as the Highest-grossing International Pop act in the venue\u2019s history, selling over 190,000 tickets across 2023 &amp; 2025, becoming the First\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cQHCXzVZUe\">pic.twitter.com\/cQHCXzVZUe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Core (@TheePopCore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheePopCore\/status\/1979941358992544122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With their Taiwan shows, BLACKPINK became the highest-grossing international pop act in the stadium\u2019s history with more than 190,000 tickets sold across 2023 and 2025. They\u2019re the first to bring two consecutive world tours to the venue, the K-pop act with the most shows ever held there (four total), and the first to return for a second global run.\u00a0But the cherry on top? The girl group\u2019s visit also impacted<strong> Kaohsiung\u2019s tourism industry<\/strong>, with hotel rates soaring by 90% and rooms fully booked across nearby cities like Tainan and Pingtung. Even Taiwan\u2019s political leaders joined the fun, showing off pink hair and waving BLACKPINK\u2019s lightsticks in honor of the group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheePopCore\/status\/1979702709872996682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheePopCore\/status\/1979702709872996682<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaohsiung, Taiwan, just had the glow-up of the year! The country welcomed BLACKPINK\u2019s \u201cDEADLINE\u201d world tour on October 18 and 19, 2025, turning the southern port city into a glowing pink paradise. To celebrate the K-pop quartet&#8217;s tour visit, Kaohsiung launched the \u201cLIGHT UP Kaohsiung IN PINK\u201d campaign, illuminating six major landmarks, such as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":150769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1425,2264,16],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-150768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-concert","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-blackpink"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}